Summer Pasta-less Salad

Since the weather outside has been too hot for even this heat junkie to handle — with temperatures reaching close to 100 °F — I’ve been avoiding my oven and stove-top and instead looking to water-packed raw fruits and veggies to get me through these sweltering days of summer.

This light summer salad is reminiscent of the pasta salad I used to enjoy as a wee one… except I left out the heavy pasta and replaced it with my fave go-to summer staple: zucchini “noodles”. If you don’t have a spiralizer, a vegetable peeler works great too.

I just found your website and made this delicious salad for dinner last night! It was amazing and just what I wanted. I loved the idea of the peaches and found some great ones to use. The dressing was very good, though there was a lot. I will use the dressing recipe for other salads as well. I do not have a spiralizer but do have a mandoline, which I used on the 3.5mm shredder, and that worked great! Thanks for the recipe; I will be visiting often.

I’m def gonna make this today, got all the ingredients at Whole Foods and just wondering, is there a print option somewhere I’m not seeing…hate to waste a lot of paper and ink printing this up, although the pics are beautiful, ink is costly! Thanks!

We did! I loved how fresh it tasted and the combination of the sweet peach with the crunchy veggies. Everything but the pepper and the peaches were from my garden. I think I’d make just a little less sauce next time. I *loved* the flavor but found it a little hard to serve since it was pretty liquidy. That said, I wanted to drink the sauce so maybe next time I’ll make the sauce this amount, and then drain it off and drink it ;)

Hey Frankie. This makes a lot of salad– at least 6 generous servings. Not sure about any substitutes for the olive oil for the dressing that would taste the same, but you’re free to try whatever strikes your fancy. I personally love olive oil in my salads, but I’m hardly a “fat free” eater. :)

:) haha! It does make a huge mixing sized bowlful, but yes, for intense veggie lovers… maybe 3 servings? ;) When I made this, I had two bowls, my hubs had two bowls and my kids ate the rest. Eating too many veggies is a wonderful problem to have! <3